... London, Wednesday Afternoon. This being the Ist of May, no business was trans* acted in the stock exohange. The transfer offices at the of England are also closed to-day for striking the half-yearly balance. The railway calls for the month of May amount to £1,869,000. [by electric telegraph.J Paris Bourse, Wednesday.—[Router's Telc- Sam.j-3 35 p.m.: The bourse has been buoyant. closed very ...

... Perhaps no more striking indication of the progress of art in this oountry, and of the increasing cultivation of a taste for it, oould be found than in the oontrast whioh edifices devoted to religious purposes erected at the present day present to those of the last and the beginning of the present oentury. Then, it would seem, people not only advocated and insisted upon the simplest forms of ...

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... Early Saturday morning, > man named Willi.- Foster apparently about year, age, residing r*rr. trade * oollier, but who for some time psot followed the oocupation making fishing nets. by Sergeant Rowland, of St. wife murder hie wire, Allen Foster, at Parr. It appears that tbe prl- ' Wh ° h ave children, r7 amlo ...

... Yesterday, Mr. H. Lowndes the appointment of juuior honorary surgeon to. Northern I Hospital. Yesterday, Edward Hynw, , ihinn. fell from i the rig in* the ship Geo ava, lying in the I falgar Dock, and fnstained fracture the was taken to the Nortl Hospital, and under surgical treatment well. Ordkr of tub Lirctb*ant of the County Palatine Lahcastck. Her Majesty, by warrant under hf r sign manual ...

... MARRIAGES. On Wednesday last, at the Parish Church, by the Rev. CanonParr, vicar, assisted by the Rev. Thomas Clark, Robt. Aitkin, Esq., of Whittle, near Chorley, to Mary Ellen, eldest daughter of Richard Porter, Esq., West Cliffe. On Wednesday last, at the Parish Church, by the Rev. John Miller, M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's, Mr. William Sedgwick, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. John Parkin- ...

... MARRIAGES. On Tuesday lest, at the Parish Church, by the Rev. D. F. Chapnuan, Mr. Thomas Nicholson to Eleanor Ann, youngest laughter of the late Mr Richard Furness, both of this town; Mr. John Steward to Miss Ellen Ellithorn. On Satutday last, at the Parish Church, Mr. Thomas Miller to Miss Jane Thomas Mr John Barnes to Miss Mary Ann Wood, Mr. Anthony dartinell Forshaw to Miss Eleanor Welch Mr ...

... THE DEATHO-F THE P-RINCE CONSORT. This meclancholy event is exciting the greatest possible Sym pathiy. fo he ajesty in the severe affliction she has sustaine,7I an ?? of ths corporate bodies of the kingdom hays pre- Sa seanted to her addresses of condolence. The funseral of hishi Roya l Hgness, which takes p lace on Monday, 'Will, in all pro- fae babl'ity, ocainagnrlihoay from sieven to two ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. The Timnes of Tuesday, in noticing the funeral of the Prince Consort, says the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, who was devotedly attached to the deceased prince to whom he bears a strong reseiblance, was deeply moved, and wept incessautly. 'tie Crown Prince of Prussia, too, was equally affected. Poor little Prince Arthur's grief was enough to move the sternest. He, of ...

... MARRIAGES. On the 22nd Nst., at the Catholic Chereh, Chipping, by the Right Rev. Dr. Roskell, bishop of Nottingham. assisted by tha Very Rev. Monscigneur Searl, Canomn of Westminster, ?? Rev. Canon Primer, the Revs. F. Cooper, F. lfton, &c., Mr. Joseph Brown, eldest son of Matthew Brown, Esq., of thiz town, to Agnes, daughter of W. Hilton, Es., of Clifton Parkt Birkenhead also, at. the same ...

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